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Institution/developer | Dataset | Main content | Data Source | URL - Home/Info | URL - Data | Number of countries covered | Period covered | Downloading options | Comments | ||
Alesina, Devleeschauwer, Easterly, Kurlat & Wacziarg | "Fractionalization" | New measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization. | National cencsus data, Encyclopedia Britannica, CIA World Factbook etc. | http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg/downloads/fractionalization.pdf | http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg/downloads/fractionalization.xls | 190 | Varies | Excel | |||
Alvarez, Cheibub, Limongi & Przeworski (ACLP) | Political and Economic Database | Impact of democracy on development. | Data from IMF, World Bank, Penn World Tables, Freedom House, The Economist etc. | http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/Default.htm | http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/AclpData.xls | 135 | 1950-1990 | Excel | |||
Armingeon, Leimgruber, Beyeler & Menegale | Comparative Political Data Set I (OECD) | A collection of political and institutional data, supplemented by demographic, socio- and economic variables. | Data from Political Data Yearbook (Eur. Journal of Pol. Research), from Huber/Ragin/Stephens, Quinn, Lijphart, Schmidt and other authors. | http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/content/team/klaus_armingeon/comparative_political_data_sets/index_ger.html | http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/content/team/klaus_armingeon/comparative_political_data_sets/index_ger.html | 23 | 1960-2004 | Excel, SPSS | |||
Armingeon & Careja | Comparative Political Data Set II (Post-Communist Countries) | A collection of political and institutional data, supplemented by demographic, socio- and economic variables. | Data from OSCE Election Reports, Freedom House, Transparency International, ILO, Lijphart and other authors. | http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/content/team/klaus_armingeon/comparative_political_data_sets/index_ger.html | http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/content/team/klaus_armingeon/comparative_political_data_sets/index_ger.html | 28 | 1989-2005 | Excel, SPSS | |||
Barro & Lee | Educational Attainment Data | International Comparison of Educational Attainment | Census and survey figures, and estimates from school-enrollment data. | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699067~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699067~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 120 | 1960-1985 | ASCII | |||
Barro & Lee | Schooling quality in a Cross-Section of Countries | International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality | Census and survey figures, and estimates from school-enrollment data. | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699068~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699068~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 126 | 1960-1990 | ASCII, Excel | |||
Bueno de Mesquita, Smith, Siverson & Morrow | The Logic of Political Survival Data Source | A wide range of indicators of conflictdata, regimes and wars | Miscellaneous. | http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/data/bdm2s2/Logic.htm | http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/data/bdm2s2/Logic.htm | 199 | 1815-2002 | Excel, Stata | |||
Beck, Clarke, Groff, Keefer & Walsh | Database of Political Institutions | The variables provide information on elections, electoral rules, type of political system, party composition of the opposition and government and coalitions, and the extent of military influence on government. | Official data/ World Bank data. | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20649465~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20649465~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 178 | 1975-2004 | Excel, Stata | |||
Cingranelli & Richards (CIRI) | "Human Rights Dataset" | Standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 17 internationally recognized human rights. | Country analyses from U.S. State Department and country reports from Amnesty International. | http://ciri.binghamton.edu/ | http://ciri.binghamton.edu/myciri/my_ciri_login.asp | 195 | 1981-2005 | ASCII, Excel | Registration required. | ||
Coppedge | Polyarchy Scale and Contestation Scale | Free and fair elections. The "scale score" is the sum of 4 components: fair elections variable, freedom of organization, freedom of expression and alternative sources of information. | Surveys. | http://www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/datacrd.htm | http://www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/datacrd.htm | 60 | 1985/2000 | Excel, SPSS | |||
Court, Kristen & Weder | Bureaucratic Structure and Performance: African Bureaucratic Structure Survey | Bureaucracies and perceptions of corruption. Uses five summary indicators: agency power, autonomy, career opportunities, private sector career, relative wage. | Data
from Evans-Rauch database, WDR 1997 report and UNU survey. Surveys of
high-level bureaucrats conducted by local experts. |
http://www.unu.edu/hq/academic/Pg_area4/b-structure.html | http://www.unu.edu/hq/academic/Pg_area4/excel/denmark.xls | 51 | 1970s-1990s | Excel | Click "cancel" when asked for username and password | ||
Deininger & Squire | Income Inequality | Gini coefficients and individual quintile groups’ income shares | Miscellaneous. | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699070~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699070~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 138 | 1890-1996 | Excel, Lotus | |||
Djankov, McLeish, Nenova, and Shleifer | Who Owns the Media? | This data set collection provides systematic data on ownership structure of the top five daily newspapers and top five television stations | Miscellaneous. | http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/data.html | http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/Data/media_data_final.xls | 97 | 1999 | Excel | |||
Dollar & Kraay | "Growth is Good for the Poor" | Inequality, incomes and growth. | UNU-WIDER, Deininger & Squire, Chen & Ravallion, Lundberg & Squire. | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699390~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699390~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 137 | 1955-1999 | Excel | |||
Dollar & Kraay | "Institutions, Trade and Growth" | Measures of trade and institutional quality. | World Development Indicators; World Currency Yearbook; Summer & Heston; Kraay, Loayza, Serven & Ventura. | http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64166093&pagePK=64165259&piPK=64165421&theSitePK=469382&repNo=WPS3004 | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20699374~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 212 | 1969-1999 | Excel | |||
Easterly & Levine | "Africas Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions" | Quantifies the relationship between long-run growth and a wider array of factors. | Data from a multitude of institutes, organizations and individual authors. | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20700002%7EpagePK:64214825%7EpiPK:64214943%7EtheSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20700002%7EpagePK:64214825%7EpiPK:64214943%7EtheSitePK:469382,00.html | 160 | 1960-1980 | ASCII, Excel | |||
Evans & Rauch | Bureaucratic Structure and Economic Performance Project (a.k.a. Weberian State Data Set) | Impact of bureaucratic structures on bureaucratic and economic performance. | Surveys based on questionnaires filled out by 126 country experts and data from Cross-National Time Series, Penn World Table etc. | http://weber.ucsd.edu/%7Ejrauch/webstate/ | http://weber.ucsd.edu/%7Ejrauch/webstate/website.out | 35 | 1970s-1990s | ASCII | |||
Franzese | The Political Economy of Public Debt Data Base | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/Publications.html | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/Publications.html | 21 | 1948-1997 | ASCII, Excel, Lotus | |||||
Franzese | Participation, Inequality and Transfers Data Base | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/Publications.html | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/Publications.html | 21 | 1948-1997 | ASCII, Excel, Lotus | |||||
Friedman, Johnson, Kaufmann & Zoido-Lobatón | Unofficial Economy Dataset ("Dodging the Grabbing Hand) | Determinants of unofficial activity. | Data from Johnson, Kaufmann & Shleifer; Lacko; Loayaza; Schneider & Enste. | http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pubs/dodginghand.html | http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/govdata/unofficial_data.xls | 69 | 1998 | Excel | |||
Gerring, Thacker & Moreno | "Centripetal Democratic Governance" | Data on a range of features of democratic governments. Impact of various political institutions on the quality of governance. | Miscellaneous. | http://www.bu.edu/sthacker/data.htm | http://www.bu.edu/sthacker/data.htm | 162 | 1960-2000 | ASCII, Excel, Stata | |||
Gibney & Dalton | The Political Terror Scale | Based on the annual reports by the US State Department and Amnesty International. | http://www.unca.edu/politicalscience/images/Colloquium/faculty-staff/gibney.html | http://www.unca.edu/politicalscience/images/Colloquium/faculty-staff/Gibney%20Doc/Political%20Terror%20Scale%201980-2004.xls | 179 | 1980-2004 | Excel | ||||
Golden, Lange & Wallerstein | "Union Centralization among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study." | Unions, employers, collective bargaining and industrial relations. | Miscellaneous. | http://www.shelley.polisci.ucla.edu/data/ | http://www.shelley.polisci.ucla.edu/data/#ds | 20 | 1950-2000 | ASCII, Stata | |||
Golder | Democratic Electoral System Around the World | The dataset covers a wide range of institutional features including regime type, the electoral formula, the average and median district magnitude, the number of constituencies and upper tier seats, assembly size etc. | Miscellaneous. | http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/elections.html | http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Emrg217/elections.html | 199 | 1946-2000 | Excel | |||
Hall & Jones | "Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others?" | Measure
of Social infrastructure by combining two indices, government antidiversion
policies and the extent to which a country is open to international trade. |
Miscellaneous. | http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~chad/pon400.pdf | http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~chad/HallJones400.asc | 127 | 1950-1995 | ASCII | |||
Henisz | The Political Constraint Index (POLCON) Dataset | Information on the number of independent branches of government with veto power and the distribution of preferences across and within those branches. | Data from World Bank, Polity, Cross-National Time Series. | http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/henisz/ | http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/henisz/POLCON/ContactInfo.html | 226 | 1800-2004 | Access, Excel | Registration required. | ||
Heston, Summers & Aten | Penn World Table | Provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates. | UN and World Bank sources, US State Department, ECA (Employment Conditions Abroad) etc. | http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php | http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt61_form.php | 168 | 1950-2000 | ASCII, SAS | |||
Huber, Ragin, Stephens, Brady & Beckfield | Comparative Welfare States Data Set | A wide range of indicators of welfare state development, its causes, and its outcomes. | OECD, ILO, IMF, Penn World Table, Quinn, Kenworthy, Neumark, Swank, Wischer. | http://www.lisproject.org/publications/welfaredata/welfareaccess.htm | http://www.lisproject.org/publications/welfaredata/cws%20lis.xls | 18 | 1960-2000 | Excel | |||
Johnson & Seddon Wallack | Database of Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote | The database updates and expands the coding of electoral systems presented in Seddon Wallack et al's (2003) Database of Particularism (also below). The data distinguish electoral systems by the degree to which electoral institutions create incentives for candidates to cultivate a personal vote | Data from IPU's annual Chronicle of Parliamentary Elections and Developments, Parlines database, IDEA's Handbook of Electoral System Design and Manual de los Partidos Politicos de America Latina. | http://dss.ucsd.edu/~jwjohnso/espv.htm | http://dss.ucsd.edu/~jwjohnso/espv.htm | 180 | 1978-2005 | Excel, Stata | |||
Johnson, Kaufmann & Zoido-Lobaton | "Regulatory Discretion and the Unofficial Economy" | Includes different measures of regulation, taxation, legal environment, and corruption. | Data from different international organizations and institutes (World Bank, Heritage Foundation, Political Risk Services etc.) | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20701021~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20701021~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html | 50 | Mid-90s | ASCII, Excel | |||
Knack & Kugler | Governance Index | Indicators of Good Governance | Miscellaneous. | http://humandevelopment.bu.edu/dev_indicators/show_info.cfm?index_id=143&data_type=1 | http://humandevelopment.bu.edu/dev_indicators/show_info.cfm?index_id=143&data_type=1 | 185 | 2002 | Html | |||
LaPorta, López-de-Silanes, Shleifer & Vishny | "The Quality of Government" (and other datasets from La Porta with others) | Data on Government performance and its possible determinants | Miscellaneous. | http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/rafael.laporta/publications.html | http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/rafael.laporta/publications/LaPorta%20PDF%20Papers-ALL/Quality%20of%20Govt-All/Quality%20of%20Govt.xls | 190 | Varies | Excel | |||
Norris | Data on the social, economic and political characteristics of nations, but most importantly the classification of electoral systems, ballot structure, compulsory voting and other relevant electoral features. | Miscellaneous. | http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/index.htm | http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Data/Data.htm | 191 | 1800-2005 | Excel, SPSS, Stata | ||||
Persson, Tabellini & Trebbi | "Electoral Rules and Corruption" | Relates corruption to different features of the electoral system. | Miscellaneous. | http://www.iies.su.se/~perssont/papers/pttjan03.pdf | http://www.iies.su.se/~perssont/datasetselectrules.htm | 86 | 1990s | Excel | |||
Persson & Tabellini | "The Economic Effects of Constitutions" | Miscellaneous. | http://www.igier.uni-bocconi.it/whos.php?vedi=1169&tbn=albero&id_folder=177 | http://www.igier.uni-bocconi.it/whos.php?vedi=1169&tbn=albero&id_folder=177 | 60/85 | 1960-1998 | Stata | ||||
Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub & Limongi | Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World | Classifying political regimes, a six-fold classification of democracies and dictatorships. | Miscellaneous. | http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/ACLP_Codebook.PDF | http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/Default.htm | 135 | 1950-1990 | Excel | |||
Roeder | Clash of Civilizations and Escalation of Ethnopolitical Conflicts | UN, US Arms Central and Disarmament Agency, World Bank. | http://dss.ucsd.edu/~proeder/ClashCodebook.pdf | http://dss.ucsd.edu/~proeder/ClashForPosting.xls | 130 | 1980-1999 | Excel | ||||
Roeder | Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization | Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization | Bruk & Apenchenko (Atlas Narodov Mira), Bromlei, Taylor & Hudson, Europa World Yearbook. | http://weber.ucsd.edu/~proeder/elf.htm | http://weber.ucsd.edu/~proeder/elf.xls | 183 | 1961/1985 | Excel | |||
Scruggs | Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset | This data set collection provides systematic data on institutional features of social insurance programs. | Data from International Social Security Association, Social Security Administration (US), European Commision and OECD. | http://sp.uconn.edu/~scruggs/wp.htm | http://sp.uconn.edu/~scruggs/wp.htm | 18 | 1971-2002 | Excel, Stata | |||
Seddon Wallack, Gaviria, Panizza & Stein | Political Particularism Around the World | The dataset provides indicators of the degree to which individual politicians can further their careers by appealing to narrow geographic constituencies on the one hand, or party constituencies on the other. Explores the connections between electoral systems and economic outcomes. | Data from IPU's annual Chronicle of Parliamentary Elections and Developments, Parlines database, IDEA's Handbook of Electoral System Design and Manual de los Partidos Politicos de America Latina. | http://www.iadb.org/res/pub_desc.cfm?pub_id=WP-463 | http://www.iadb.org/res/pub_desc.cfm?pub_id=WP-463 | 158 | 1978-2001 | Excel, Stata | |||
Swank | Comparative Parties Data Set | Political strength of political parties by ideological group in capitalist democracies. | Browne & Dreijmanis; Mackie & Rose; Keesing's Contemporary Archives. | http://www.marquette.edu/polisci/Swankpart5099code.pdf | http://www.marquette.edu/polisci/Swankpart5099.xls | 21 | 1950-1999 | Excel | |||
Tsebelis | "Veto Player Data" | Data about the composition of governments of different advanced industrialized countries, as well as on the ideological positions of the different parties. | Keesing's Archives, European Journal of Political Research. Ideological scores based on Warwick, Castles & Mair, Laver & Hunt, Huber & Inglehart. | http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tsebelis/veto_players | http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tsebelis/veto_playe | 21 | 1945-2000 | Excel | |||
Vanhanen | Measures of Democratization (Polyarchy) | Democracy ratings, based on electoral turnout and competitiveness. | Miscellaneous. | http://www.fsd.uta.fi/english/data/catalogue/FSD1289/index.html | http://www.fsd.uta.fi/english/data/catalogue/FSD1289/index.html | 187 | 1810-2004 | ASCII, Excel, SPSS, Stata | |||
Vanhanen | Index of Power Resources | Measures of resource distribution. | Miscellaneous. | http://www.fsd.uta.fi/english/data/catalogue/FSD1216/ | http://www.fsd.uta.fi/english/data/catalogue/FSD1216/ | 196 | 1858-2000 | ASCII, Excel | |||
Veenhoven | World Database of Happiness | The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work. | http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/index.html | http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/statnat/statnat_fp.htm | 114 | 1960s-2000s | SPSS | Have to order the data file | |||
Wacziarg & Welch | "Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence" | Trade policy openness indicators and trade liberalization dates. | Expands on Sachs & Warner. | http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg/downloads/integration.pdf | http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg/downloads/liberalization.xls | 140 | 1989-1999 | Excel |